Lucius Cornelius Merula (consul 193 BC)

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Lucius Cornelius L. f. Merula was

Gallia Cisalpina. Merula closed an active predatory campaign by a total defeat of the Boian Gauls in the neighbourhood of Mutina. Since his staff officer Marcus Claudius Marcellus accused him of a delay in sending forward a reserve unit, resulting in several thousand unnecessary casualties and the escape of many enemy soldiers, the senate refused him a triumph
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References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainSmith, William, ed. (1870). "Merula (1)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 2. p. 1049.


Political offices
Preceded by
Tiberius Sempronius Ti.f. Longus

193 BC
Succeeded by